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First you need to decide whether your primary objective is to make money or to run a lifestyle business.
As it's the former I would suggest that you avoid just opening *another* bar or guesthouse, due to your limited startup capital you would need to aim at the bottom end of the market which is already saturated. So unless you are a seasoned pro at that type of venture and are going to bring something unique you would most likely end up on the near bottomless list of establishments which failed in under a year in that sector.
I think you could make a successful business with that level of investment but you're going to have to innovate and attack a niche. There are many success stories around town which no doubt started with less capital but appear to be thriving business. Take a look at Vego's Salad Bar, Fatboy Subs or Coola Products (ad to the right>>) for businesses that identified a niche that they could easily dominate with low investment and then backed it up with sound execution. Aim for a business where the startup costs are low enough for you to use a third of the capital for equipping the business, a third for marketing and a third held back to cover costs until you begin making revenue.
If I had that level of capital I would be looking at options that fitted the following criteria:
- Fulfills an existing unmet demand
- Utilisation of cheap unskilled labour
- Zero investment in property renovation
- Minimal investment in depreciating assets (cars, computers etc)
- Targets a specific niche that I know can be reached through a proven marketing channels
Off the top of my head here are some ideas (most are big at home, but not available here):
- New Build Cleaners (cleans a property once the builders leave)
- Window Cleaners
- DVD/CD Delivery
- Food Delivery (deliver for restaurants that don't offer the service and also soak up other demand, such as late night, or outskirts of town)
- Finders/Fixers (customer speaks to someone who will understand the request, they then communicate it to the person who performs the request, i.e. go find me a sprinkler head or 10" baking tray and bring it to me)
I could go on all day.
As it's the former I would suggest that you avoid just opening *another* bar or guesthouse, due to your limited startup capital you would need to aim at the bottom end of the market which is already saturated. So unless you are a seasoned pro at that type of venture and are going to bring something unique you would most likely end up on the near bottomless list of establishments which failed in under a year in that sector.
I think you could make a successful business with that level of investment but you're going to have to innovate and attack a niche. There are many success stories around town which no doubt started with less capital but appear to be thriving business. Take a look at Vego's Salad Bar, Fatboy Subs or Coola Products (ad to the right>>) for businesses that identified a niche that they could easily dominate with low investment and then backed it up with sound execution. Aim for a business where the startup costs are low enough for you to use a third of the capital for equipping the business, a third for marketing and a third held back to cover costs until you begin making revenue.
If I had that level of capital I would be looking at options that fitted the following criteria:
- Fulfills an existing unmet demand
- Utilisation of cheap unskilled labour
- Zero investment in property renovation
- Minimal investment in depreciating assets (cars, computers etc)
- Targets a specific niche that I know can be reached through a proven marketing channels
Off the top of my head here are some ideas (most are big at home, but not available here):
- New Build Cleaners (cleans a property once the builders leave)
- Window Cleaners
- DVD/CD Delivery
- Food Delivery (deliver for restaurants that don't offer the service and also soak up other demand, such as late night, or outskirts of town)
- Finders/Fixers (customer speaks to someone who will understand the request, they then communicate it to the person who performs the request, i.e. go find me a sprinkler head or 10" baking tray and bring it to me)
I could go on all day.
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This topic is covered in some detail in the Ask Lucky section of the most recent edition of the Kampot Survival Guide. While the information is generally Kampot specific, it may have wider applications and is probably worth posting in its entirety.
Thinking about starting a business in Kampot? Not sure if another Bar, Restaurant, Guesthouse is really the way to go in a competitive market but racking your brain for alternatives? As a public service, Lucky gives you twelve thoroughly researched Totally Awesome Kampot Business Concepts.
Dogs R Us
This one will give you something to bark about! Catch dogs at night and sell them back to their owners in the morning or auction to the highest bidder. This is a high turnover, low overhead business with almost unlimited supply and demand. With over 450,000 dogs in Kampot, it would be financially viable to work on 25 cents per dog-capture-unit (DCU) generating an income of $112,000 per night or 2.7 million dollars per month gross assuming a six day working week and limited time off for injury.
Anti Eco Resort
Are you passionate about chaos and a big fan of apocalypse movies? This could be the business for you!
Buy - or better still – lease a pristine rainforest block of land around Kampot.
Supply your guests with canisters of Agent Orange defoliant and chainsaws and a choice of toxic chemicals and unleash them on the landscape. Supply them with guns and grenades to shoot things and blow shit up. Once your land looks like ground zero of a nuclear test site, lease another one. Target the growing tourism niche market needs of psychopaths, environmental anarchists and nihilists with money.
Guilt Trips
You’ve never had it so good. This is an ideal Ethical Tourism business venture with a huge potential to rake in big bucks and no down sides. Conduct tour groups and provide photo opportunities - complete with a grim running commentary - to sites of filth, misery, wretched squalor, grinding poverty and ghastly atrocities. Play Leonard Cohen songs on the car sound system while traveling between sites. Apart from the money you make - and there will be plenty of it - you will have a warm inner glow knowing that your customers can now rejoice in their newfound awareness of their own relative affluence and good fortune.
Grief Counseling
Nothing screams Caring more than Counseling. This is an ideal spin-off business from Guilt Trips (above). Studies have repeatedly shown that 98% of people who have been exposed to Leonard Cohen songs feel mildly suicidal following one song and acutely suicidal following as little as three. Listening to a complete Leonard Cohen album is clinically regarded as a toxic level of exposure. There are mega bucks to be made in helping these sufferers and some of this action might as well be yours. Remember to offer a free voucher for an additional Guilt Trip once the Suffering Customer (SC) appears completely cured.
Unexploded Ordinance Disposal and Learn Khmer
This business concept is a blast. A completely untapped, limited liability Adventure Tourism business geared to adrenaline junkies and the linguistically curious. Tour participants will get to defuse active land mines and other UXO following an intensive ten minute training session conducted entirely in Khmer by a trainer with a peach impediment. Since most customers will die, you will not need to worry about negative feedback on Trip Advisor so it’s all win-win. This business has the added potential of attracting NGO funding.
The Riel Deal
This one is solid gold for anyone with a little capital to invest! Everyone in Kampot is now walking around with fake Gold Rolex’s on their wrist. It doesn’t take too much intelligence to realize that Kampot people have no choice but to buy knock-off watches because no one in town has the business acumen to set up a shop selling genuine $50,000 Gold Rolexes! Here’s where you come in. A hundred million dollars (two hundred million tops) will get you set up with your first tray of watches, an umbrella, a stall outside Kampot market and a nice little earner.
Get Paid To Talk Like An Expat
We live in the Information Age and it’s time to get paid what you are worth! Expats are not born, they are created. Much like a Warrior Monk or Zen Master, the Venerable Elder Expat (VEE) has gained their knowledge through years of adversity, often involving financial losses, relationship breakdowns and surviving the worst that cultural dissonance could throw at them. The VEE’s pearls of wisdom and nuanced awareness of the culture did not come easy and access to this kind of information is worth money …truckloads of it. The next time a tourist asks your opinion about some aspect of living in Kampot, charge the information freeloader for it. A suggested fee schedule is: Short Answer Fee= $10 – Long, loud, rambling, drunken, opinionated, sexist, racist, incoherent, repetitive, Shit-You-To-Tears Answer Fee= $50.
Kampot Air Repair
This one will see your profits flying high. Many of the major airlines are looking to outsource the maintenance on their jumbo jets to developing countries as a means of cutting costs. Kampot has skilled metal fabricators, machinists, mechanics, roof tilers, stone masons, concreters and brick layers. In fact all of the skills required to service and maintain a jumbo jet are right here in Kampot. It just needs someone to integrate them and that someone might as well be you. Imagine the look on the CEO of Lufthansa’s face when you quote him a price for replacing the concrete pavers on the plane’s wings. $6.50 per square meter. Laid. In Concrete. Unbeatable. Throw in a free iced coffee. No? Can discount further. No?? OK…so how much you want to pay?
The Real Kampot By Night
This business concept is like, a totally amazing blend of Extreme Adventure and Booze Tourism. Aimed at alcoholic tourists wanting to experience the non-touristy Real Cambodia, you will provide pushbikes for your customers and escort them on dusk until dawn tour of the primitive Khmer grass hut drinking establishments that surround Kampot. Since most of your clients will be unused to riding a poorly maintained pushbike in the dark on dirt roads with several liters of palm wine in their system, many will sustain severe injuries requiring hospitalization. Your customers will then get to have an authentic and unforgettably awesome experience in A Real Cambodian Hospital.
Business Workshops
Chalk this one up to experience! Looking for that elusive business concept where existing supply does not exceed demand for the next hundred years? Draw down on your own experience and offer a range of training sessions and workshops for the newly arrived business hopefuls.
Suggested workshops include:
How to hemorrhage money slowly
Seven tips to minimize your profits
Why success in not really an option
Self medication: 250 drugs that will keep you going
How to be at the head of the pack in the race to the bottom
Angry meditation: the path to embracing despair
Keeping secrets: why having too much information can make your head hurt
What to do when your partner goes crazy
What to do when you go crazy
The probability of everyone else having gone crazy and you are the only sane one left
Who is going to clean up the mess?
Five signs you are losing the plot
Six things the bastards never told me
Another 562 things the bastards never told me
Smiling Financial Assassin Assistant
This business plan is so simple you’ll wonder why someone didn’t think of it before. Most people from developed countries arrive in Kampot with a lot of money but no idea what they should pay for goods and services. This is very, very sad and these people badly need a friend…why not you? Offer to use your extensive local knowledge to get the things they need. Now buy these things from the seller at 750% above the real market rate. The seller (ideally your cousin Reggie or other relative) will give you a big commission for bringing them the business… and of course the bigger the markup, the bigger the commission!! Your new friend will be so grateful for your help they will insist on paying you. Now you make money coming and going. Everybody happy…how good is that?
Become an Engrish Teacher
As sweet as! Think you don’t have the skills to start a business? Wrong! You speak Engrish and there are big bucks in teaching others to speak it too. Nothing shows your impeccable credentials for teaching Engrish than a perfectly worded advertisement. Like this:
Are you boring and scary of speaking the Engrish and doing the document?
Maybe people laugh you because Engrish no good and make you want to stick fork in your eye or run away because shame so much?
We not Mickey Mouse - although not mean not love him two much and have too T shirts to. Our dedicate and experience Engrish teacher will help you loose the scary.
Hurry up for quickly! Am limited places and have tigers.
For more information: Do not contact (Your Name) on (Your phone)
Copy and paste the above, take to print shop, print sufficient copies to put on every tree in Kampot and watch the dollars roll in.
Thinking about starting a business in Kampot? Not sure if another Bar, Restaurant, Guesthouse is really the way to go in a competitive market but racking your brain for alternatives? As a public service, Lucky gives you twelve thoroughly researched Totally Awesome Kampot Business Concepts.
Dogs R Us
This one will give you something to bark about! Catch dogs at night and sell them back to their owners in the morning or auction to the highest bidder. This is a high turnover, low overhead business with almost unlimited supply and demand. With over 450,000 dogs in Kampot, it would be financially viable to work on 25 cents per dog-capture-unit (DCU) generating an income of $112,000 per night or 2.7 million dollars per month gross assuming a six day working week and limited time off for injury.
Anti Eco Resort
Are you passionate about chaos and a big fan of apocalypse movies? This could be the business for you!
Buy - or better still – lease a pristine rainforest block of land around Kampot.
Supply your guests with canisters of Agent Orange defoliant and chainsaws and a choice of toxic chemicals and unleash them on the landscape. Supply them with guns and grenades to shoot things and blow shit up. Once your land looks like ground zero of a nuclear test site, lease another one. Target the growing tourism niche market needs of psychopaths, environmental anarchists and nihilists with money.
Guilt Trips
You’ve never had it so good. This is an ideal Ethical Tourism business venture with a huge potential to rake in big bucks and no down sides. Conduct tour groups and provide photo opportunities - complete with a grim running commentary - to sites of filth, misery, wretched squalor, grinding poverty and ghastly atrocities. Play Leonard Cohen songs on the car sound system while traveling between sites. Apart from the money you make - and there will be plenty of it - you will have a warm inner glow knowing that your customers can now rejoice in their newfound awareness of their own relative affluence and good fortune.
Grief Counseling
Nothing screams Caring more than Counseling. This is an ideal spin-off business from Guilt Trips (above). Studies have repeatedly shown that 98% of people who have been exposed to Leonard Cohen songs feel mildly suicidal following one song and acutely suicidal following as little as three. Listening to a complete Leonard Cohen album is clinically regarded as a toxic level of exposure. There are mega bucks to be made in helping these sufferers and some of this action might as well be yours. Remember to offer a free voucher for an additional Guilt Trip once the Suffering Customer (SC) appears completely cured.
Unexploded Ordinance Disposal and Learn Khmer
This business concept is a blast. A completely untapped, limited liability Adventure Tourism business geared to adrenaline junkies and the linguistically curious. Tour participants will get to defuse active land mines and other UXO following an intensive ten minute training session conducted entirely in Khmer by a trainer with a peach impediment. Since most customers will die, you will not need to worry about negative feedback on Trip Advisor so it’s all win-win. This business has the added potential of attracting NGO funding.
The Riel Deal
This one is solid gold for anyone with a little capital to invest! Everyone in Kampot is now walking around with fake Gold Rolex’s on their wrist. It doesn’t take too much intelligence to realize that Kampot people have no choice but to buy knock-off watches because no one in town has the business acumen to set up a shop selling genuine $50,000 Gold Rolexes! Here’s where you come in. A hundred million dollars (two hundred million tops) will get you set up with your first tray of watches, an umbrella, a stall outside Kampot market and a nice little earner.
Get Paid To Talk Like An Expat
We live in the Information Age and it’s time to get paid what you are worth! Expats are not born, they are created. Much like a Warrior Monk or Zen Master, the Venerable Elder Expat (VEE) has gained their knowledge through years of adversity, often involving financial losses, relationship breakdowns and surviving the worst that cultural dissonance could throw at them. The VEE’s pearls of wisdom and nuanced awareness of the culture did not come easy and access to this kind of information is worth money …truckloads of it. The next time a tourist asks your opinion about some aspect of living in Kampot, charge the information freeloader for it. A suggested fee schedule is: Short Answer Fee= $10 – Long, loud, rambling, drunken, opinionated, sexist, racist, incoherent, repetitive, Shit-You-To-Tears Answer Fee= $50.
Kampot Air Repair
This one will see your profits flying high. Many of the major airlines are looking to outsource the maintenance on their jumbo jets to developing countries as a means of cutting costs. Kampot has skilled metal fabricators, machinists, mechanics, roof tilers, stone masons, concreters and brick layers. In fact all of the skills required to service and maintain a jumbo jet are right here in Kampot. It just needs someone to integrate them and that someone might as well be you. Imagine the look on the CEO of Lufthansa’s face when you quote him a price for replacing the concrete pavers on the plane’s wings. $6.50 per square meter. Laid. In Concrete. Unbeatable. Throw in a free iced coffee. No? Can discount further. No?? OK…so how much you want to pay?
The Real Kampot By Night
This business concept is like, a totally amazing blend of Extreme Adventure and Booze Tourism. Aimed at alcoholic tourists wanting to experience the non-touristy Real Cambodia, you will provide pushbikes for your customers and escort them on dusk until dawn tour of the primitive Khmer grass hut drinking establishments that surround Kampot. Since most of your clients will be unused to riding a poorly maintained pushbike in the dark on dirt roads with several liters of palm wine in their system, many will sustain severe injuries requiring hospitalization. Your customers will then get to have an authentic and unforgettably awesome experience in A Real Cambodian Hospital.
Business Workshops
Chalk this one up to experience! Looking for that elusive business concept where existing supply does not exceed demand for the next hundred years? Draw down on your own experience and offer a range of training sessions and workshops for the newly arrived business hopefuls.
Suggested workshops include:
How to hemorrhage money slowly
Seven tips to minimize your profits
Why success in not really an option
Self medication: 250 drugs that will keep you going
How to be at the head of the pack in the race to the bottom
Angry meditation: the path to embracing despair
Keeping secrets: why having too much information can make your head hurt
What to do when your partner goes crazy
What to do when you go crazy
The probability of everyone else having gone crazy and you are the only sane one left
Who is going to clean up the mess?
Five signs you are losing the plot
Six things the bastards never told me
Another 562 things the bastards never told me
Smiling Financial Assassin Assistant
This business plan is so simple you’ll wonder why someone didn’t think of it before. Most people from developed countries arrive in Kampot with a lot of money but no idea what they should pay for goods and services. This is very, very sad and these people badly need a friend…why not you? Offer to use your extensive local knowledge to get the things they need. Now buy these things from the seller at 750% above the real market rate. The seller (ideally your cousin Reggie or other relative) will give you a big commission for bringing them the business… and of course the bigger the markup, the bigger the commission!! Your new friend will be so grateful for your help they will insist on paying you. Now you make money coming and going. Everybody happy…how good is that?
Become an Engrish Teacher
As sweet as! Think you don’t have the skills to start a business? Wrong! You speak Engrish and there are big bucks in teaching others to speak it too. Nothing shows your impeccable credentials for teaching Engrish than a perfectly worded advertisement. Like this:
Are you boring and scary of speaking the Engrish and doing the document?
Maybe people laugh you because Engrish no good and make you want to stick fork in your eye or run away because shame so much?
We not Mickey Mouse - although not mean not love him two much and have too T shirts to. Our dedicate and experience Engrish teacher will help you loose the scary.
Hurry up for quickly! Am limited places and have tigers.
For more information: Do not contact (Your Name) on (Your phone)
Copy and paste the above, take to print shop, print sufficient copies to put on every tree in Kampot and watch the dollars roll in.
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Blimey, someone had too much time on their hands. Start your business spudda, or that could be you!
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The funniest post I have read in months.carpejugulem wrote:This topic is covered in some detail in the Ask Lucky section of the most recent edition of the Kampot Survival Guide. While the information is generally Kampot specific, it may have wider applications and is probably worth posting in its entirety.
Thinking about starting a business in Kampot? Not sure if another Bar, Restaurant, Guesthouse is really the way to go in a competitive market but racking your brain for alternatives? As a public service, Lucky gives you twelve thoroughly researched Totally Awesome Kampot Business Concepts.
Dogs R Us
This one will give you something to bark about! Catch dogs at night and sell them back to their owners in the morning or auction to the highest bidder. This is a high turnover, low overhead business with almost unlimited supply and demand. With over 450,000 dogs in Kampot, it would be financially viable to work on 25 cents per dog-capture-unit (DCU) generating an income of $112,000 per night or 2.7 million dollars per month gross assuming a six day working week and limited time off for injury.
Anti Eco Resort
Are you passionate about chaos and a big fan of apocalypse movies? This could be the business for you!
Buy - or better still – lease a pristine rainforest block of land around Kampot.
Supply your guests with canisters of Agent Orange defoliant and chainsaws and a choice of toxic chemicals and unleash them on the landscape. Supply them with guns and grenades to shoot things and blow shit up. Once your land looks like ground zero of a nuclear test site, lease another one. Target the growing tourism niche market needs of psychopaths, environmental anarchists and nihilists with money.
Guilt Trips
You’ve never had it so good. This is an ideal Ethical Tourism business venture with a huge potential to rake in big bucks and no down sides. Conduct tour groups and provide photo opportunities - complete with a grim running commentary - to sites of filth, misery, wretched squalor, grinding poverty and ghastly atrocities. Play Leonard Cohen songs on the car sound system while traveling between sites. Apart from the money you make - and there will be plenty of it - you will have a warm inner glow knowing that your customers can now rejoice in their newfound awareness of their own relative affluence and good fortune.
Grief Counseling
Nothing screams Caring more than Counseling. This is an ideal spin-off business from Guilt Trips (above). Studies have repeatedly shown that 98% of people who have been exposed to Leonard Cohen songs feel mildly suicidal following one song and acutely suicidal following as little as three. Listening to a complete Leonard Cohen album is clinically regarded as a toxic level of exposure. There are mega bucks to be made in helping these sufferers and some of this action might as well be yours. Remember to offer a free voucher for an additional Guilt Trip once the Suffering Customer (SC) appears completely cured.
Unexploded Ordinance Disposal and Learn Khmer
This business concept is a blast. A completely untapped, limited liability Adventure Tourism business geared to adrenaline junkies and the linguistically curious. Tour participants will get to defuse active land mines and other UXO following an intensive ten minute training session conducted entirely in Khmer by a trainer with a peach impediment. Since most customers will die, you will not need to worry about negative feedback on Trip Advisor so it’s all win-win. This business has the added potential of attracting NGO funding.
The Riel Deal
This one is solid gold for anyone with a little capital to invest! Everyone in Kampot is now walking around with fake Gold Rolex’s on their wrist. It doesn’t take too much intelligence to realize that Kampot people have no choice but to buy knock-off watches because no one in town has the business acumen to set up a shop selling genuine $50,000 Gold Rolexes! Here’s where you come in. A hundred million dollars (two hundred million tops) will get you set up with your first tray of watches, an umbrella, a stall outside Kampot market and a nice little earner.
Get Paid To Talk Like An Expat
We live in the Information Age and it’s time to get paid what you are worth! Expats are not born, they are created. Much like a Warrior Monk or Zen Master, the Venerable Elder Expat (VEE) has gained their knowledge through years of adversity, often involving financial losses, relationship breakdowns and surviving the worst that cultural dissonance could throw at them. The VEE’s pearls of wisdom and nuanced awareness of the culture did not come easy and access to this kind of information is worth money …truckloads of it. The next time a tourist asks your opinion about some aspect of living in Kampot, charge the information freeloader for it. A suggested fee schedule is: Short Answer Fee= $10 – Long, loud, rambling, drunken, opinionated, sexist, racist, incoherent, repetitive, Shit-You-To-Tears Answer Fee= $50.
Kampot Air Repair
This one will see your profits flying high. Many of the major airlines are looking to outsource the maintenance on their jumbo jets to developing countries as a means of cutting costs. Kampot has skilled metal fabricators, machinists, mechanics, roof tilers, stone masons, concreters and brick layers. In fact all of the skills required to service and maintain a jumbo jet are right here in Kampot. It just needs someone to integrate them and that someone might as well be you. Imagine the look on the CEO of Lufthansa’s face when you quote him a price for replacing the concrete pavers on the plane’s wings. $6.50 per square meter. Laid. In Concrete. Unbeatable. Throw in a free iced coffee. No? Can discount further. No?? OK…so how much you want to pay?
The Real Kampot By Night
This business concept is like, a totally amazing blend of Extreme Adventure and Booze Tourism. Aimed at alcoholic tourists wanting to experience the non-touristy Real Cambodia, you will provide pushbikes for your customers and escort them on dusk until dawn tour of the primitive Khmer grass hut drinking establishments that surround Kampot. Since most of your clients will be unused to riding a poorly maintained pushbike in the dark on dirt roads with several liters of palm wine in their system, many will sustain severe injuries requiring hospitalization. Your customers will then get to have an authentic and unforgettably awesome experience in A Real Cambodian Hospital.
Business Workshops
Chalk this one up to experience! Looking for that elusive business concept where existing supply does not exceed demand for the next hundred years? Draw down on your own experience and offer a range of training sessions and workshops for the newly arrived business hopefuls.
Suggested workshops include:
How to hemorrhage money slowly
Seven tips to minimize your profits
Why success in not really an option
Self medication: 250 drugs that will keep you going
How to be at the head of the pack in the race to the bottom
Angry meditation: the path to embracing despair
Keeping secrets: why having too much information can make your head hurt
What to do when your partner goes crazy
What to do when you go crazy
The probability of everyone else having gone crazy and you are the only sane one left
Who is going to clean up the mess?
Five signs you are losing the plot
Six things the bastards never told me
Another 562 things the bastards never told me
Smiling Financial Assassin Assistant
This business plan is so simple you’ll wonder why someone didn’t think of it before. Most people from developed countries arrive in Kampot with a lot of money but no idea what they should pay for goods and services. This is very, very sad and these people badly need a friend…why not you? Offer to use your extensive local knowledge to get the things they need. Now buy these things from the seller at 750% above the real market rate. The seller (ideally your cousin Reggie or other relative) will give you a big commission for bringing them the business… and of course the bigger the markup, the bigger the commission!! Your new friend will be so grateful for your help they will insist on paying you. Now you make money coming and going. Everybody happy…how good is that?
Become an Engrish Teacher
As sweet as! Think you don’t have the skills to start a business? Wrong! You speak Engrish and there are big bucks in teaching others to speak it too. Nothing shows your impeccable credentials for teaching Engrish than a perfectly worded advertisement. Like this:
Are you boring and scary of speaking the Engrish and doing the document?
Maybe people laugh you because Engrish no good and make you want to stick fork in your eye or run away because shame so much?
We not Mickey Mouse - although not mean not love him two much and have too T shirts to. Our dedicate and experience Engrish teacher will help you loose the scary.
Hurry up for quickly! Am limited places and have tigers.
For more information: Do not contact (Your Name) on (Your phone)
Copy and paste the above, take to print shop, print sufficient copies to put on every tree in Kampot and watch the dollars roll in.
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small business = small return if any.
Make sure for whatever u go into u spend at least 6 months on the ground where ur going to do the business and than make sure u have enough money in the bank to cover all ur expenses AFTER u have opened for business to last you at LEAST 6 months going on the assumption u will not make $1 in that whole time
Than u stand a good chance of making it
Make sure for whatever u go into u spend at least 6 months on the ground where ur going to do the business and than make sure u have enough money in the bank to cover all ur expenses AFTER u have opened for business to last you at LEAST 6 months going on the assumption u will not make $1 in that whole time
Than u stand a good chance of making it
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
If you want to start a business in Kampot go for a psychiatrist practice aimed at the small business owners. They are all plonkers down there.well...most of them.
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Yeah, Kampot Survival Guide rules.retronuevo wrote:The funniest post I have read in months.carpejugulem wrote:This topic is covered in some detail in the Ask Lucky section of the most recent edition of the Kampot Survival Guide. While the information is generally Kampot specific, it may have wider applications and is probably worth posting in its entirety. (...)
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i think 95% of small business in Cambodia are more of a life style choice. Small bars/gh's and restaurants, ( how much profit is there in a $3-5 meal? or a $1 beer) don't make loads of money, an the owner is pretty much required to be there to keep the business going.
I looked at a few gh's that had bars an restaurants attached and the owners claimed to put away an average of $1,000-1,500/month BUT they and wife's/gf's were there 6-10 hours/day
I looked at a few gh's that had bars an restaurants attached and the owners claimed to put away an average of $1,000-1,500/month BUT they and wife's/gf's were there 6-10 hours/day
"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer." HST
Damn right, it was wet. If it wasn't raining, it was about to or had just stopped.krisduncs wrote:so you had a wet weekend spudda?
Didn't seem to stop people going to the Rusty Keyhole, but otherwise, it was very quiet on the riverfront.
The "Kampot survival guide" is a very useful booklet and pretty funny in places. There's a color booklet as well, called "coastal", i think. It's also very useful guide, not quite as funny, but it's more ummm colorful!
Went back again last week and stayed for a bit longer. Have a couple of things in the works, but far from settled.
I'm liking Kampot, plenty of potential and plenty of friendly expats, at the moment, anyway.
Stayed mostly at the "Magic Sponge", loved it! Room was big, William and Derek were very friendly and helpful and there was plenty do do in your spare time(pool, mini golf, movies). A big bonus if you like Indian food.
Spent a bit of time at Olly's Place, over the other side of the river. Great views, great service and paddle boats and a kayak free for customers to use.
Only bad reviews to a guesthouse who's cleaning agent is far far too strong(i'm guessing there was another smell they wanted to get rid of) and a g/h restaurant which didnt check to see if they had customers for at least 5 mins, so we left. I'm pretty sure they were open.
Yeah, mainly positive reviews, i may work next to these guys soon.
Rained(a lot) on 5 of the 6 days we were there, only some of it was heavy. Didnt really spoil much, in fact, the temperatures were perfect, never too hot.
So, whatever happened to this eco village?gusone wrote:have you seen my recent post? kampot eco village- it is still available and 25k would buy you close to ten years lease- who knows you may be able to buy the land and business for that but then you would be broke. Or find a partner and take Kris up on Rusty- they are still full every night even with the dribble of tourists coming through town atm. I personally wouldn't invest in Sihanoukville even if it wasn't my money, you couldn't pay me to live there. No offense intended to those who do, its just not my scene.
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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I was also looking for something that does not require a large down payment. I prefer to spend their time. Maybe because I do not have large savings, and besides, how little puts a little risk.
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If you want to open a small business then it helps if you have some pre-existing skills rather than just put money into something you know nothing about. So open a dentist surgery if you know how to.pull teeth or accounting services if you can do that. Don't open a bar, invest in a guest house or someone else's hair brained scheme that sees you buying a business for the "goodwill" and a 3 year lease!
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